Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 14:20 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 09/10/2015 02:14 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > Sparse file support on the backup medium is also very useful if the
> > backup program supports it. If the utility has compression support,
> > that's also a benefit to conserve space on the backup medium.
> 
> My backup program uses rsync for the heavy lifting.  As I back up to 
> a flash drive, I ended up reformatting it to ext4 to get symlinks.  I
> presume that anybody using an external hard drive would have it 
> formatted appropriately.

Didn't know about BackInTime but it appears to be similar to rsnapshot
except for having a GUI. OTOH I'm guessing rsnapshot is faster when the
backup set is on a server rather than a local drive since it's more
efficient when pulling over rsync rather than pushing to NFS or Samba.

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